This is my problem with this whole debate. Yes I acknowledge that young people face serious challenges starting out in the workforce. Yes I agree that we are importing foreigners to take American jobs and that is hideously evil and unfair.
Once we’ve agreed on that, what then? What is a young adult supposed to actually do tomorrow? What is your plan? Complaining about it incessantly on Twitter is not a plan. Calling for policy solutions is fine and I agree that we should work on those. But what about tomorrow? What is the demoralized young person supposed to actually do in his life tomorrow?
I say that he must get up in spite of it all, get the best job he possibly can, and work as hard he can to achieve what he can. He has a difficult road. Far from the most difficult compared to the vast majority of humans who have ever lived on Earth, but difficult. I acknowledge that. But he still has to get up and walk. What else would we have him do?
Listen Matt, this is very simple. You don't need to tell young white men to get up and walk. People learn how to do that by age 2. You need to start fighting to abolish the H-1B visa program.
Yes, you're one of the few Con Inc influencers who says H-1Bs should be stopped. But strangely enough, you spend your time defending the ones who think it's amazing? Why?
Get to work ending the H-1B, or shut up.
The progressive income tax needs to be abolished to get people to work more. I make $150k/yr working 40 hours a week but if I work another 40 and get paid $150k/yr for that additional 40 then I'll be earning barely minimum wage because of progressive income taxes. That's a joke.
Not only that but no where is going to pay me $300k/yr to work 80 hours a week instead of $150k/yr to work 40. I'd do it if I was paid appropriately.
You basically have to go out on your own for that. I do that now for people I used to work with, and I work harder than I have since my 20s because team "billable hours" is a great team to play for. It's also a nice feeling (for me at least) for a project to end so it doesn't feel like work is an endless slog where nothing seems to ever progress.
But I don't know how you deliberately put yourself into that situation where you can do that; it would be very specific to an individual. In my case it happened on accident: old coworkers emailed me after they'd heard through the grapevine I quit where we'd worked together, they needed help, the ball started rolling, and things just worked out. After the first successful project they knew I could deliver, so then I was a known quantity for the next time they needed help.